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RI Advice investment team departure

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
Changes are afoot at dealer group RI Advice, after its internal investment research team departs to start their own business with Ray Miles-owned Fortnum Financial Group as a client. The investment research team will create its own portfolio construction ...

Fee-for-service assist program launch

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... business. Pricing benchmarks against peers is also part of the software. "Having conducted Australia's only qualitative research report into adviser pricing models, we know that the method we use is effective in achieving great results for advisers and ...

UBS promotes Rider to new head of inv strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... Formerly an equity strategist for UBS since 2005, Rider will now be responsible for Australian economic and investment research as a senior member of the GIS team, impacting on UBS's Australian multi-asset strategies. Rider will now chair the Australian ...

Direct property makes a comeback

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... Super, Asset Super, Sunsuper and AustralianSuper have added their exposure to direct property in recent months, Rainmaker research shows. Direct property is back en vogue as investors look outside listed real estate and lock in higher returns - and a ...

ISN renews push for 12pc SG

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... politics," David Whiteley, chief executive of ISN, which represents Industry super funds, said. The call coincides with new research from the ISN that found that a third of retirees said that they had insufficient super to make ends meet, half of which ...

Cormann blasts ALP over default super

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... according Rainmaker's 2010 Group Insurance and Super Fund Fee surveys. The Institute of Public Affairs in an occasional research paper released in April this year found that Australia's 166 revised modern industrial awards nominated an average 2.9 funds ...

Member switching yields winners and losers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... 2008/09 could have added thousands to their super balance - or carved a large chunk out of their retirement savings, the research showed. During that same period, Super SA said it processed more than 3,800 switches, with many of them choosing to go into ...

Industry fund members switch to SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... Industry funds are losing members to self-managed super funds, poor investment performance and lacklustre communication, research shows. An Investment Trends survey of 8,500 fund members found that nearly one in four industry fund members (23 per cent) ...

BT Wrap releases plain English investor guide

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... statements much easier to understand through its new Investor Guide. Launched after six months of intensive customer research, the BT Wrap Investor Guide is part of BT Wrap's focus on innovation with the fund manager calling the new guide an "industry ...

Support grows for Asia Funds Passport

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... development of an 'Asia Funds Passport', which would allow for funds to exchange across the region, according to joint research report by the Financial Services Council of Australia and PwC. The study asked respondents from 11 different economies from ...